Emily Franklin | Love & Other Monsters

The NWPL and Yankee Bookshop welcome Emily Franklin to talk about her newest novel, Love & Other Monsters. In the stormy, scandalous summer of 1816, daring eighteen-year-old Claire Clairmont changed the course of literature forever. But then — unlike her stepsister Mary Shelley — she was forgotten, until now. With searing relevance to our here and now — of celebrity worship, climate disaster, of complicated femininity, Love & Other Monsters is the untold origin story of Frankenstein, a feminist reckoning of sisters, survival, and the creation of monsters — both those on the page and those who walk among us. Emily Franklin is the bestselling author of more than twenty books, including a poetry collection, Tell Me How You Got Here. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Kenyon Review, and The Journal of the American Medical Association, read aloud on National Public Radio, named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries, and longlisted for the London Sunday Times Short Story Award. Her novel The Lioness of Boston, based on the life of trailblazer Isabella Stewart Gardner, is in its tenth printing. Yankee Bookshop will be on hand with copies of Love & Other Monsters.